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IESG proposed statement on the IETF mission

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Tue, 14 October 2003 22:06 UTC

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From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: ietf@ietf.org, problem-statement@alvestrand.no
Subject: IESG proposed statement on the IETF mission
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Greetings,

As part of the discussions about change process within
the IETF, the IESG has come to believe that a somewhat longer statement of 
the IETF's mission and social dynamics might provide useful context for the 
community's discussion.  As part of that, we'd like to put the following 
document out for feedback.

It incorporates lots of ideas and some text from existing RFCs
and IETF web pages, but is more focused on change than those have
been.  We hope it captures a sense of the context of the work of
improving the IETF, by capturing some of the social dynamics which
have been an implicit part of the IETF's work and style over the years.

We also hope that by making some of those implicit elements more
explicit, we may find it easier to understand how to make changes
that will "go with the grain" of the IETF's history and culture.

We'd be happy to have feedback on it, either sent to the IETF list
for public discussion or to the IESG.  This is an informal piece of work, 
and may never be published in RFC form, but may rather appear on the IETF 
web pages somewhere.

Your comments are welcome!

		Harald Alvestrand
		For the IESG

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